Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-07-20
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

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President Frank Gaienne After speeches
adopted. The people Of St Louis respect
fully and earnestly extend to the President
Of the United States and to Mrs. Cleveland,
an invita- ton to visit our city and become
Its guests for the week commencing October,
1857; In doing so they beg leave 70 urge on
that will demonstrate the respect
and love they have for him as . public off,
Ger and as q man. The mayor and com.
mittee of fifty, to be selected by him, were
appointed to proceed to Washington and
deliver the invitation to the President.
Dun & Co.'S, weekly trade review,
says that the business of the broken (4th Of
JULY week, has been ON the whole encourage
ing The prospects with which the halt
year opens are generally satisfactory, and
yet financial uncertainties are not entirely
and there remain great specula-
tive operations which disturb and threaten.
able reports Of injury from drouth and bugs
come from Western Nebraska. Southern
reports are uniformly favorable az to cot
ton. An increase of 10 per cent in the acre
age OF hay is reported, with probable IN
creased yield in all sections except the CEN
trail West, though the quality is not quite so
Joseph Gruenhut, the Chicago So
cialist, said in an interview that all hope
of q new trial for the condemned anarchists
had been abandoned. Funds were still be-
ing collected for them, but the money, in
stead OF being applied to defray legal ex-
Re n 'es, is to be used for an entirely differ
en- purpose. Twenty or thirty persons are
procure signatures for petition to Gov.
Oglesby praying that the death penalty be
committed. A stated sum will be paid for
each signature secured.
The sales of wool, according to
Bradstreet, for the week at Boston are re-
ported at 1876, 900 pounds, as compared
with 1851 600 pounds last week and 4, 81, 400
pounds in the same week last year. At
Philadelphia business has been very quiet
this week. Manufacturers of cheviots have
been buying moderately of quarter-blood
domestic and of East India woods suitable
for their purposes, but the general demand
has been light and unsatisfactory. Prices
are unchanged. Receipts continue small.
At Lexington, Miss, on the 18th R.
B. Chatham, Independent and Republican
candidate for the legislature, shot and
the Lexington Bulletin. Harkins' father is
one of the Democratic nominees for the leg
islature Chatham and young Harkins had
been discussing politics and drinking beer
freely during the day up to the time the dis
pute arose.
A party of German excursionists,
numbering 81, we're upon the sloop Mystery,
for Sunday outing, and at half past six in
off Barren Island, near New York, the sloop
was struck by a furious land gale that drove
out the tide, and capsized the craft Thirty
of the party were drowned.
The Texas election upon the question
of Prohibition takes place August 4. The
Galveston News sums up the probabilities
of the vote as it appears to-day: Prohib-
ition 154, 81 inducing $1,000 negroes: Anti
Prohibition 1868. It is admitted that the
AUTHORIZATION vote may be larger than
estimated.
Nine lives were lost at St. Thomas,
Ont, on the 18th, by the collision Of Grand
Trunk excursion train with a passenger
freight train of the Michigan Central at the
crossing of the two roads. An oil car of the
freight train was set on fire by the collision
and a number Of cars burned.
At Detroit, Mich, on the 18th Ber-
nard Michelfender, son of wealthy brew
er, died from hydrophobia. He was bitten
by pet dog five weeks ago. On Tuesday
the first symptoms of hydrophobia ap-
peared, and after suffering terribly he died
after one of his commissions.
During a thunder storm at Mount
Pleasant, Tenn, a party of colored people
attending burial in the cemetry took ref
uge under the trees. An oak tree was
struck by lightning under which nine per-
sons were standing and all were killed.
Recently an eight-inch vein of quartz
carrying free gold in immense quantity has
been developed on lands of the Lake Supe-
rlor Iron company near lshpeming, Mich,
by officials of that company.
By collision of two stock trains on
the Burlington & Missouri R. R., near Lin
coin, Net., thirteen loaded cars were
burned and damage done to the total
amount of $5OO, GOO.
The largest fire Port Huron, Mich,,
has had in years, was the burning of Cooley
& Campbell's planning mill on lumber yard
on the 18th. Loss $4,000, insurance 81 ,O00
Gen. Walter c. Whitaker, who served
in the Union Army during the war, died at
his home in Lyndon, near Louisville, KY,
Saturday night.